Re:Guide to Serverless Architecture
by emj on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:03AM
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Back when we only had shared hosting or bare metal there where some pretty good CGI hosters. So a better comparision is compact fluorescent lamp: incandescent light bulb with a new name, CFL are clumsy and expensive for many things but a cheap and easy way to use less energy. I'm waiting for the LED version.
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Re:Guide to Serverless Architecture
by not_kurt_godel on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:45PM
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Would those hosters scale up to serve arbitrary amounts of traffic? Would they automatically replace hosts that failed? Could they seamlessly integrate with systems that can store and query unlimited amounts of data? Did they have a system like API Gateway to put your CGI scripts behind? Did they have deployment systems that would set up all of the above and more with a single command, like Serverless? Also are you aware that Lambda is exceedingly cheap?